As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Michael Myers survives his descent into a mind shaft from the previous movie and holds up with a hermit for a year before returning to his hometown in Illinois to attack his niece during Halloween and any trick-or-treaters who get in the way. As usual, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is on his trail."Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers" (1989) has the best sense of Halloween up to this point in the Michael Myers story arc with a considerable amount of the runtime involving the entertaining shenanigans of trick-or-treaters. While it's not great like the previous entry it's pretty much on par with the original 1978 movie and I actually prefer it even though it's less classy/arty and more blunt. Remember the infamous closet scene in the original? This one has a similarly effective sequence revolving around a clothes chute and Jaimie Lloyd.Ellie Cornell returns from the previous movie as Rachel and looks better, but it's charismatic raven-haired Wendy Foxworth as Tina who's the main protagonist (aside from Jaimie, that is) with blonde Tamara Glynn offering support as Samantha. There's also a Fonzie wannabe and his bud.This is the first movie in the series to throw in a little camp and comic booky-ness like the "Friday the 13th" franchise did with "Part III" (1982) and subsequent installments. The campiness has to do with the two goofy deputies and the comic booky-ness relates to the mysterious man-in-black and the corresponding twist at the end, which is supposed to segue into "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers" (1995). Like "Friday the 13th Part III," there's a long sequence involving a similar-looking barn.As with "Halloween 4," the movie was shot in the greater Salt Lake City area, Utah.GRADE: B

Watchable for the BRILLIANT DANIELLE HARRIS but that's about it!!! Donald pleasance is not very good here unlike in the EXCELLENT part 4!!! The SCARY shocking ending of part 4 is completely ruined here so that is a major problem!!! So yeah some ok bits but not a good fun slasher like its prequel part 4. JUST BORING & DULL REALLY

It's one year later after the events of Halloween 4. Michael survives the shootings and on October 31st he returns with a vengeance. Lurking and stalking, Jamie, Rachel, and Rachel's friends, Michael forms a plan to lure Jamie out of the children's hospital where events lead up to the confrontation at the Myers house. Halloween 5 is the same insane result that Part 4 was and it gets even more insane when survivors of the previous installment die easier this time and the film starts an entire supernatural element between Michael and his Niece that made no sense and if there's one good thing about both of this installments is Donald Pleasence who does a great job as Dr. Loomis once again but the end result once again is not a memorable or good film in this once good Franchise. (3/10)

"Halloween 5" finds Jami Lloyd locked up in a mental institution for killing her mother in the last film. Everything seems to be normal for her, or as normal as things can get, until she starts having visions of her uncle, Michael Myers, coming for her. Soon enough, Myers does come back for Jami, after being in a coma for a year. Which leads us to the dumbest thing in the film, Jami having a telekinetic connection to her uncle. Just saying that, it sounds dumb. But, when it comes from a "Halloween" film- one of the smartest horror franchises around-it really hurts to see."Halloween 5" isn't the worst sequel in the series, trust me there's far worse, but it's a great step in the wrong direction considering "Halloween 4" brought the franchise back to it's roots with a very chilling story. The best way to describe "Halloween 5" is that it feels like a "Friday The 13th" clone, even though "Halloween" came first. The teenagers are all sex driven maniacs who only have two emotions-annoyingly excited or just plain annoying-and the violence is toned way up for this installment. That's not to say I don't love a good bit of gore, but when you have such poor direction and the gore is the only thing going for your film, well... If anything good is to be said about "Halloween 5" it's that, despite the films many, many, many, many, many flaws, it still somehow manages to be frightening in a few scenes-specifically when Dr. Loomis is walking around the old dilapidated home of Myers. There's no jump scares or gore, but you have this heavy sense of dread throughout the whole scene. All in all, "Halloween 5" is pretty much the definition of an 80's horror film. You've got the big haired, sex crazed twenty somethings, you've got the zombified maniac lumbering around, but you don't have many scares-or a good plot for that matter.